Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!oberon!cit-vax!ucla-cs!zen!ucbvax!SUN.MCS.CLARKSON.EDU!mrd From: mrd@SUN.MCS.CLARKSON.EDU ("Michael R. DeCorte") Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Memory upgrades for *1040*ST Message-ID: <8709051613.AA01659@sun.mcs.clarkson.edu> Date: Sat, 5-Sep-87 12:13:01 EDT Article-I.D.: sun.8709051613.AA01659 Posted: Sat Sep 5 12:13:01 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 6-Sep-87 06:08:37 EDT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 14 > Gee maybe I worded something wrong. From what I heard the new ROM chips >can address up to one Gigabyte, in the HARD DISK. Not RAM. Understand what >I'm saying??? Well, correct me if I'm wrong. are you suggesting virtual memory? Hmmm that could be interesting comming from a company that can't get memory allocation correct even given a couple of years. They also can't seem to figure out how to remember what directories are in memory - boy directories are easy compared to page swaping. Also be cute trying to have virtual memory accross multiple partitions, remember that bothersome 32 Meg limit on your partitions, or is it 16 meg I forget. Oh and let's not forget the speed penalty. No I am not saying that VM systems are by nature slow but Atari has yet to figure out a way to read a disk drive at a resonable speed.